Coming to Rome at break of day, they at a distance exhibited the appearance of enemies.

The AEqui or Volscians appeared to be coming.

Then when the groundless alarm was removed, they are admitted into the city, and descend in a body into the forum.

There Publius Valerius, having left his colleague to guard the gates, was now drawing up in order of battle.

The great influence of the man had produced an effect, when he affirmed that, "the Capitol being recovered, and the city restored to peace, if they would allow themselves to be convinced what lurking fraud was concealed under the law proposed by the tribunes, that he would offer no obstruction to the meeting of the people, mindful of his ancestors, mindful of his surname, and that the province of protecting the people had been handed down to him as hereditary by his ancestors." Following him as their leader, notwithstanding the tribunes cried out against it, they direct their march up the Capitoline hill.